The Book of Mormon

Week 16: Conversion of Alma₂ & the sons of Mosiah₂; commencement of the reign of the judges; Nehor & the Amlicites

Mosiah 26–Alma 4

8 February 2024

• Elder John K. Carmack, “When Our Children Go Astray,” Ensign, February 1997, pp. 7–13.

• “How Were Judges Elected in the Book of Mormon? (KnoWhy #107),” Book of Mormon Central, 25 May 2016.

• Matthew Roper, “For What Crime Was Nehor Executed?,” Ether’s Cave (blog), 29 January 2016.

• J. Christopher Conkling, “Alma’s Enemies: The Case of the Lamanites, Amlicites, and Mysterious Amalekites,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 14, no. 1 (2005): 108–17. Conkling argues that the Amlicites of Alma 2–3 were the same group as the Amalekites who appeared suddenly, without explanation, in Alma 21, and that Oliver Cowdery simply used a different spelling of the same word dictated by Joseph Smith.

• Benjamin McMurtry, “The Amlicites and Amalekites: Are They the Same People?,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 25 (2017): 269–81. McMurtry disagrees with Conkling and argues that that the Amlicites and Amalekites were, indeed, two separate groups.